Meet Fredrik Hillnor. He says his music consists of “various instruments joint together in small symphonies I record on my computer”. It’s instrumental electronica in a nice harmony with guitars and other instruments. He says he simply uses the instruments that comes his way and make him happy.

I feel rather comfortable walking around in Fredrik’s sound landscape, where different instrumental melodies ar interwoven into a whole. And it never gets boring, the music changes frequently as one instrument takes the lead from another, and I’m often fascinated how he brings it all together.

Judge for yourself by listening to some tracks below. To listen more, you can visit Hillnor on Myspace.

The Pt 10
Helt
Wood In the Hood

In the beginning of December I presented Twiggy Frostbite here on Meadowmusic. This was very much appreciated, judged by the responses afterwards. Therefore I thought it would be appropriate to throw in an extra bonus today; recordings from a radio session this Christmas. Naked, acoustic in Swedish national radio, and I think this is magical. Listen for yourself:

Heroes (live acoustic)
Messy Star (live acoustic)

You’ll find Twiggy Frostbite on Myspace

Exhadley is a duo consisting of Jörgen Andersson and Peter Fransson. I feel that words are not enough when I try to explain their music. Or maybe music experiences is a better phrase. With the help of electronics and synths and other instruments, they create pieces of musical art, which sometimes give me a psychadelia feeling, but is very varying. And that makes it even more interesting for me. It’s like going on a discovery adventure, and you’ll never know what’s around the corner.

Try for yourself here in a couple of tracks. You will find Exhadley on Myspace if you’d like to listen more. You can also find Jörgen Andersson under the name Nachdenken and Peter Fransson as Retep Folo, where you also will discover som interesting music.

Meridians
Ordinairy Flowers That Are Not

It’s a day of contrasts today. At six a’clock pm I’m going to church to listen to the Lucia performance. Traditional, beautiful and extra emotional since my little daughter is singing in the choir. And I’m sitting here, preparing myself by listening to something completely different. From the fully predictable to the total opposite. But, of course, there is also beauty in The Argument’s new album “Summer/Winter Nights”, so it’s not completely the opposite in all aspects.

This feels very fun to listen to. As I said, it feels unpredictable in this lo-fi indie-pop/rock from The Argument. You’ll find great pop gems mixed with considerably more experimental tracks. In one track I feel the vibes from Talking Heads and in another I hear Bright Eyes, but it’s far away from some kind of description of the music overall. Basically it feels quite unique.

The Argument are generous enough to offer their entire album free for download, track by track or the album in one zip-file. You can access this on The Argument’s page on Bandcamp. (excellent service Bandcamp, btw)
You can also visit The Argument on Myspace and also their blog.

Listen to three tracks from “Summer/Winter Nights”:

Forget About the Politics
What I Like
The Boat

Twiggy Frostbite, taste that name. I don’t know where it comes from or what it means exactly, but I do think it feels perfect for their music. Like sparkling icicles in a starlit winter night. It’s exciting and a little mysterious with cool melodies that squiggles through a fantastic sound space. The misty voice of Elin Lindfors is the magic wand that turns this into something really special.

After the the singer Elin Lindfors collaboration with David Lehnberg in The Deer Tracks, which I wrote about in August, Twiggy Frostbite are now preparing for their debut album “Through Fire” (Despotz Records). It’s about to be released in the beginning of February next year, and in the meantime we can enjoy a track from the album, “Heroes”.

Here you can listen to and download “Heroes”:

Heroes

Visit Twiggy Frostbite on Myspace and Facebook